Historical truth and lies about the past
Subtitle: reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan
By: Alan B. Spitzer.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Historiography.; Truth.; Objectivity.; History, Modern -- 20th century -- Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-156) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : historical argument when the political chips are down; title: John Dewey, the "trial" of Leon Trotsky, and the search for historical truth; title: Versions of truth in the Dreyfus case; title: The debate over the wartime writings of Paul De Man : the language of setting the record straight; title: Ronald Reagan's Bitburg narrative.